Mona

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Mona is a given name, most frequently recorded in Egypt, where it is the 32nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Arabic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Southern Togo language; Muslim female: 'hope'; Swazi male: 'jealous'; European female: 'noble lady'.

rarermore common
  • KWKuwait1 in 388◐
  • EGEgypt1 in 411
  • NONorway1 in 445

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈101K ●

across 8 countries

6 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
442 ●

703K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 445 ◐

Norway

Spellings & scripts●

MonaLatin · English●437K records
מונאHebrew · Hebrew●25K records
โมนะThai · Thai●391 records
ΜοναGreek · Greek●51 records
ᲛონაGeorgian · Georgian●23 records
МонаCyrillic · Mongolian●2 records

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Monalisa in BR Brazil, מונא in IL Israel, מונה in FR France and Mona-Lisa in FI Finland.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Southern Togo language; Muslim female: 'hope'; Swazi male: 'jealous'; European female: 'noble lady'.

Sources 1

  • African Names

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Mona is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
EG Egypt#3295,46632K rec.—listedMona154
IL Israel#28839,45541K rec.—1Kמונא37
US United States#71137,092441K rec.1 in 9K37KMona442
DE Germany#57226,36224K rec.—1Mona194
IN India—21,7346.8K rec.—45Mona122
SE Sweden#12421,386△9.1K rec.1 in 47721KMona88
GB United Kingdom#77720,20920K rec.—listedMona127
SY Syria#18418,84121K rec.——Mona25
BR Brazil—13,351△3K rec.1 in 16K13KMonalisa117
CA Canada#67513,04613K rec.—5Mona145
PH Philippines—12,40110K rec.——Mona74
NO Norway#8312,286△6K rec.1 in 44541KMona82

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English437K37%
  • Arabic176K15%
  • Hindi165K14%
  • French45K4%
  • German44K4%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English437,11237%
Arabic176,30015%
Hindi165,06214%
French44,5074%
German43,6174%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Mona is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name184K records spelled Mona35 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu

    Also written মনা, মোনা, মুনা, মৃনা, মূনা

  • French given name127K records spelled Mona34 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Brazil, Philippines

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Moná, Moña, Monà, Möna, Mona'

  • a separate given name30K records spelled Mona4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Moña, Monā, Moná

  • Indonesian given name16K records spelled Mona11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, India, United States, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Mona, Mõnã, Móńá, Mõña, Mőna

  • Finnish given name14K records spelled Mona7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Sweden, United States, Estonia

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Mòña, Mőña, Mönä, Mõnä, Moña

  • French given name8.8K records spelled Mona153 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Morocco, Syria

    Languages: French, Arabic, Spanish

    Also written Mouna, Muna, Mouena, Мона

  • Swahili given name8.2K records spelled Mona2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden, India, Philippines

    Also written Mon'A

61 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Mona is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, Short form; often from Monica or Madonna-related usage.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • Anglicized form of the Gaelic name Muadhnait, a feminine diminutive of muadh ‘noble’. It is no longer restricted to people with Irish connections, and has sometimes been taken as connected with Greek monos ‘single’, ‘only’.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • from a personal name based on Arabic mund ‘wishes’, ‘desires’, plural of munya ‘wish’.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • from a feminine form of Moni, a short form of the personal name Simone (Italian equivalent of Simon).

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • dry fruit; a kind of fly; a snake-carrying basket

    as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05001K1.5K1900195020001.2K · 1957

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Mona in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
188014
188114
188211
188316
188418
188517
188631
188722
188832
188929
189033
189144
189247
189358
189454
189553
189656
189759
189861
189957
190069
190142
190255
190359
190473
190580
190671
190770
190885
190987
1910101
1911105
1912156
1913174
1914212
1915265
1916253
1917313
1918245
1919253
1920262
1921301
1922274
1923292
1924329
1925322
1926369
1927376
1928422
1929499
1930540
1931496
1932613
1933614
1934635
1935670
1936656
1937623
1938641
1939523
1940470
1941444
1942418
1943359
1944342
1945366
1946427
1947446
1948455
1949513
19501,088
19511,106
1952950
19531,061
19541,192
19551,093
19561,187
19571,231
19581,090
19591,183
19601,081
19611,090
1962968
19631,009
1964890
1965874
1966903
1967681
1968608
1969691
1970633
1971459
1972454
1973365
1974305
1975269
1976258
1977218
1978236
1979190
1980157
1981181
1982165
1983152
1984123
1985154
1986163
1987139
1988142
1989140
1990127
1991154
1992129
1993126
1994101
1995112
1996151
1997113
1998111
1999105
2000126
200197
200297
200388
200482
2005104
200692
200789
200892
200973
201089
201194
201274
2013115
201497
2015107
2016119
2017116
2018109
2019106
202099
202197
202288
202391
202486
202561

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1900195020002050Mona Washbourne, b. 1903Mona Hammond, b. 1931Mona Marshall, b. 1947Mona Khalil, b. 1949Mona Simpson, b. 1957Mona Sahlin, b. 1957Mona Fastvold, b. 1981Mona Singh, b. 1981Mona Barthel, b. 1990Beata Andersson, b. 2005

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 114 sources across 62 countries.

Official registers attesting Mona
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—41K#82
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202037K#1,111
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—21K#202
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202015K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)202512K—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—7.9K#89
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20246.5K#210
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—3.1K#841
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—2.5K—
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)20242.4K#70
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20221.2K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.1K#7,474

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,041 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mona?
We estimate roughly 101 thousand people bear Mona (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Mona have the most bearers?
Mona is most frequently recorded in Egypt, where it is most often spelled mona.
How common is Mona compared with other names?
In Egypt, Mona is the 32nd most common given name of 72,792 given names recorded there.
Is Mona a male or female name?
Mona is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Mona mean?
Recorded meaning: Southern Togo language; Muslim female: 'hope'; Swazi male: 'jealous'; European female: 'noble lady'.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mona” — the 32nd most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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